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...wind-turbine makers. In a position paper released in September the group said, "The use of bidding requirements to bar international [wind-turbine] companies from competing is a cause for grave concern for these players who have all invested heavily in the market to live up to stringent local content requirements...
...trying to digitize library books - Microsoft started a rival effort but dropped it last year - "and so the fact that they don't want these books accessible isn't a shocker," he said. "The vast majority of people I talk to are very excited about the idea that this content is going to be unlocked and opened up." Clancy acknowledged criticism that some parts of the settlement may be too broad but said changes would be "targeted and surgical." While it may not be optimal to have only one company selling digital copies of old books, it's "better than...
Komaroff said three or four physicians helped with the development of the content and about a half dozen artists and editors employed by Harvard Health Publications assisted with the project...
Gore-porn, like sex-porn, follows a strict set of rules: it will present the explicit content we desire, but in a codified format which neutralizes any emotional attachment or psychological impact. Just as pornography’s implicit prohibition of kissing allows us to experience exploitative sex without any discomfort, so does gore-porn’s implicit prohibition of relatable characters and substantial plots allow us to experience unthinkable brutality with utmost detachment...
...difference between the translations of these two lines embody the fundamental difference between Snow and Mitchell’s translations—Mitchell is concerned with the force of the imagination, of the dreamy feeling in Rilke, whereas Snow is concerned with the machinery, the functionality, of the content of his conditionals...